"How it Feels to be Colored Me" is an autobiographical essay written in 1928. Zora Neale Hurston explains the changeover of growing up in the small black town of Eatonville, Florida, to the dominantly white town of Jacksonville, Florida. At the age of 13, Zora only saw white people when they traveled through the town of Eatonville which is a primarily colored town. Which does not leave enough time for her to be truly exposed to the idea of discriminating another human being based off the way they look or the color of their skin. Hurston describes how cultural identity is a part of our American history, and the racial difference between blacks and whites.
Throughout her life, Zora believed black people and white people were the same. Neither one seemed to have power over the other. The only issue that Zora had a problem with was how “white people drove through Eatonville, but …show more content…
Recognizing the constructing racial profiling and choosing to ignore them. Ending by speaking of times when she sees herself as being a brown bag along a wall in company with many other bags or different colors. These bags can be emptied into a pile and refilled and nothing would change. "A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter."
Overall in "How it Feels to be Colored Me,” Zora discovered the difference between whites and blacks. Growing up viewing each individual the same changed once she experienced certain things within her life. Everybody looks the same internally. People just become accustom to how the world is and continue to teach the same principle for each generation after them. It takes a special kind of person to rise against what is expected of them and that is what Zora Neale Hurston represents to the African American
Throughout her life, Zora believed black people and white people were the same. Neither one seemed to have power over the other. The only issue that Zora had a problem with was how “white people drove through Eatonville, but …show more content…
Recognizing the constructing racial profiling and choosing to ignore them. Ending by speaking of times when she sees herself as being a brown bag along a wall in company with many other bags or different colors. These bags can be emptied into a pile and refilled and nothing would change. "A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter."
Overall in "How it Feels to be Colored Me,” Zora discovered the difference between whites and blacks. Growing up viewing each individual the same changed once she experienced certain things within her life. Everybody looks the same internally. People just become accustom to how the world is and continue to teach the same principle for each generation after them. It takes a special kind of person to rise against what is expected of them and that is what Zora Neale Hurston represents to the African American